Bill Text: NY A03113 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enhances the scope of health equity impact assessments to require consideration of reproductive health services and maternal health care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-07 - substituted by s3609b [A03113 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03113-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3113

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CLARK, FAHY -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  enhancing  the
          scope  of health equity impact assessments to require consideration of
          reproductive health services and maternal health care

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 2802-b of the public health law,
     2  as amended by chapter 137 of the laws of 2022, is amended  by  adding  a
     3  new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
     4    (j) The extent to which the availability and provision of reproductive
     5  health services and maternal health care in the applicant's service area
     6  will  be affected if the project is implemented. Applicants shall demon-
     7  strate how the project  will  meet  the  obligation  of  providing  such
     8  services, pursuant to section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-aa of this
     9  chapter.
    10    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    11  manner as chapter 137 of the laws of 2022, takes effect.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07126-02-3